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From: Luciano Moreira - igLnx <lucianolnx@ig.com.br>
To: Ankit Jain <ankitjain1580@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux prg <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: exit(42)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:29:14 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4154131A.7030208@ig.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040924115759.6133.qmail@web52908.mail.yahoo.com>

Operating systems can catch programs exit values (eg: by exit() in C/C++).

So, you can do it by script shell (in UNIX) or by "DOS" commands in 
Wndows Console. Well, Operating systems can also give you this values 
when you call a program from another program, see exec() and system() 
functions.

Luciano


Ankit Jain wrote:

>well do any body know what does this mean?
>
>exit(42)
>
>and also when we say exit(0) or exit(1) then there is
>anyway to catch these values
>
>also when we return from main fn then what is the
>benfit?
>
>does it have any utilisation?
>
>thanks
>
>ankit
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-24 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-24 11:57 exit(42) Ankit Jain
2004-09-24 12:13 ` exit(42) Alphex Kaanoken
2004-09-24 12:25 ` exit(42) Ron Michael Khu
2004-09-27  9:16   ` exit(42) Pankaj
2004-09-27 12:39     ` exit(42) Micha Feigin
2004-09-27 13:54       ` exit(42) Jon Masters
2004-09-24 12:29 ` Luciano Moreira - igLnx [this message]
2004-09-24 16:33 ` exit(42) Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-09-25  1:13 ` exit(42) Micha Feigin
2004-09-25 10:57   ` exit(42) rinku rathore

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